Eddie Mcguire is a Hypocrite

Eddie can never handle what he dishes out

Eddie McGuire is at it again.  It is now wonder McGuire is the president of one of the most hated clubs (Collingwood) in Australia after yet another outburst equal to that of a spoilt child who has had his lollipop taken off him.

So now McGuire is not happy that Greater Western Sydney is looking to sign on of Collingwood's star players.  Quoted:
"If they go after Scott Pendlebury, I will declare war on Greater Western Sydney and I will set up a tent embassy outside their tumbleweed-blown ground up there in Greater Western Sydney, I will steal every one of their good players for the rest of my life. I will go feral. I will make it my life's ambition to destroy them and run them into the ground. As long as they know ... this is not Melbourne where you can just walk in and steal the players. If you do this at Collingwood, good luck."

It seems that everytime something does not suit Collingwood McGuire is out their screaming for change.  This is from a  team that rarely ventures out of Melbourne during the year and gets more games at the MCG than any other team. If they don't have a player they simply put a big offer out there to buy them and see nothing wrong with what they do.  If another club does something wrong or a player at another club is on the wrong side of the law you will hear McGuire asking for action to be taken and the club to be held to account.  Yet when a player at his club was caught up in gambling on games McGuire was not very audible.

Getting back to the Pendlebury issue though if he is so important to the club why is he only on a 12 month extension.  Surely such an important player to a club would be signed up for longer, that is if the player wants to stay.  It is time that McGuire was held accountable for his rants by the AFL, after all he is only one person at one club.  But due to McGuire's standing in the media he seems to be able to do what he wants and say what he wants and never be held to account by the AFL or media.  You will very rarely see a critical article on McGuire and probably never will.  McGuire might be like in parts of Melbourne but he is definitely despised in most parts of Australia.

Adding to that it is the way the AFL has allowed the game to be solely Melbourne orientated for a national competition that is killing it.  They are expanding but realistically never want the trophy outside of their state.  Last year I almost turned completely off AFL with the way the game is going and McGuire is only enhancing the reason as to why this has become a game I am really turning off too.